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By Hick Mohn Oameccck Staff Writer This past weekend was bol pleasant and disappointing for fot members of the USC tennis tean The top two Gamecock double teams, Chris Mayotte ^ Arthi Anastopoulo and Chuck Hodgin Ulf Petersen, played in the NCA Indoor Doubles Championships i Wichita, Kansas. It was a doubl honor, not only to play in th tournament, but for USC to ha\ two teams there. Both pairs < Gamecocks finished in th6 top : teams in the strong field. "But we hoped to do better Anastipoulo said after the tou nament. "We played well, but v could have gone further." After taking Trinity's Larr Gottfried (brother of touring pi Brain) and Mike Davison 7-5,6-3 i the opening round, Anastopoul and Mayotte fell to John Picker and Derrick Segal of Pa American, 6-4, 7-6. Home run king: Aaro . By Will Grimsley AP Sports Writer ORLANDO, Fla. ? The two mc who erased baseball's mo: celebrated achievement ? tl home run records of the great Bat Ruth ? met by chance at the ai nual baseball meetings and four they shared a lot of bitt< memories. "It should have been one of tt, most pleasant times of my life an it turned out to be the moi dreadful,'' said Hank Aaron wh shattered Ruth's career mark wit his 715th home run in Atlanta o April 8,1974 and went on to hit 75! "For me, it was sheer hell," sai Roger Maris, whose 61st home ru TERRACESlf 6400WAIN ST.*PH.754-74341 ADMISSION $3 00 A CARLOAD; OPEN FRI THRU SUN Wolf Woman I The GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and FricfA/ during the fall and spring isemes.'ers and once weekly on Thursdays during both summer sessions with the exception of university holidays and examination periods Opinions expressed in the GAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to the GAMECOCK, Box 95131 Russell House, University of S.C., Columbia, S.C. 29208. Subscription ratei I art is par semester and $2 for fh? 3 summer session*. I Third class postage paid at Columbia, ^duos si "The second set in that match went to a tiebreaker we lost 5-4 h after leading it 4-1," Anastopoulo it explained. "We should have won i. the match, but they were just better on the big points." ;* | ' 1 .. j^o'''J';f'> v_ r 1BK1 ':'W^^<*xpP^ flBHr ire -^mB^?;?:'" in | Anastopoulo s meet n, Maris r Oct. 1, 1961 erased a mark that most baseball men felt could never ?n be touched. st Aaron has added a few pounds ia oinno Via rotirar) r? fKa nnA <%f tUn IV hMUVV 1IV A VUi VU 14V UiV KslkKJk \Jl U1C >e 1976 season to become a vice n- president and director of player id development for the Braves. ;r MARIS, crew-cut, built like a football guard, retired in 1968 and settled down to a profitable beer , distributorship in Gainesville, Fla. st 4 10 ji mm t n n n' BjHMs >.: B' d j ': . n s HhHHkv , i i WSSmm^&rn^' 3 I P^ ^HH i? .En , ?1! : - x N^a QIB F " // ^ ^ :Yf=f, uccess MEANWHILE, Hodgin am Petersen captured a three-set wii over the number one doubles tear Southern Methodist, SMU, 4-6, 6-2 6-4 in the first round. Then they loa another three-set decision ? thi cime to sieve meisier and L?el Shir as of Princeton, who ever tually took thrd place in th tournament. The score was 6-4, 2-< I 7-6. It was another tiebreake decision, and "it was a rea heartbreaker," according to coaci Ron Smarr. "Meister and Shira are excellent players, and we had; chance to win, but lost a real clos one." The consolation rounds wer good ones for the Gamecocks, a Hodgin and Petersen defeats Clemson's number one team 6-4,7 5 before being eliminated b; vn?K/?i> <>?/) 1 t otiun anu v ci HUIIUU U1 OUUUICI'I Illinois, 6-1, 6-2. "That was the only bad matcl . Ulf and Chuck had this fall, Smarr said. Indeed, the numbe ecall unp "I thought pressure on Rog< was tougher than the pressure c me," Aaron said. "He had to g< Hie ftl hnmora in a oaf Hmo f?am I?w VA llVAIIVft U AAA U OVV MAUV AICU1I Me? I felt it was only a matter i my staying healthy. If I couldn't < it this year, then there always wi next year." "It was tough," added Maris. "In my case, I felt I had to pli every day. One little injury, ai I've blown it." mrJm : P |j ' /- | j?^^ J&Si p?M||gggV A d two USC team was impressive, i n running up a 17-3 record in the fall n season, then finishing in the top 91AICCII III U1C lUUlimillCiU. ? MAYOTTE AND Anastopoulo i- mm m 1. ] fg^jjr' |||| ,r" d 'r| ^ Pdayotte ileasant m ir "What irritates me is the >n suggestion that Roger was just a et fluke who had one good hitting < e. year," said Aaron. "Let me tell 1 of you, I played against him. He was : lo one of the best all-around outis fielders I have ever seen." AARON IS among those who feel I it is an injustice to keep Maris out jy of the Hall of Fame. Time is < id running out on the former Yankee i outfielder. 1>'-:^^I -y-r ^-~'~z~~,~~ >H ~-: -_":\l'S'~y~ 5|s Vi 7i Pgfy R^: . jg] W")r\ . ' :: ' ;' iS insas I rambled by the top doubles teams from Kansas and LSU by identical 6-4, 6-3 scores before falling in the fifth round 6-4,7-5 to Mark and Jeff Turpin of SMU. All this despite the fact that "Chris is still not back to 100 percent," said Smarr. "His shoulder is still giving him trouble, although it's better than it was." Anastopoulo agreed, "Yeah, Chris is serving better than before, but not as well as before he hurt his arm. We wanted to do better in Wichita, but those teams were very good." Smarr praised his players, then revealed that Mayotte will rest his arm completely for a few weeks. "Chris won't hit a ball until January, so his arm can rest. Overall it was a good tournament ... 1 1 I A T 1-1 *? ia?i weenenu, oui 1 sure would nice to have those two tiebreaker points over again," he said. But there were no other complaints from Smarr ; after all, very few coaches can claim two of the best 16 college doubles teams in the United States on their rosters. emories Both players said they perienced fan resentment to their efforts to beat Ruth's records, as if the Babe's marks should be left sacrosanct. <iv i never opened my man lor a year," Aaron said. "Just lucky someone ran across the letter from Magnovox." The electronics company signed the Braves slugger to a five-year, $1 million contract. 231 - H|